eCAM Advance Access originally published online on October 19, 2005
eCAM 2005 2(4):427-428; doi:10.1093/ecam/neh135
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ECAM is waiting for eCAM
Laboratory of Comparative Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, CA 90095-1763, USA
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To wait is to live. Every aspect of our existence requires, demands and includes waiting. We wait for our research grants to be funded, our manuscripts to be accepted. For those of us who are on the way up, we wait to be promoted based on our scholarly involvement. Some of us, in fact, most of us are professors of various ranks and disciplines in universities throughout the world. Regardless of rank, we must also wait for responses (favorable we hope) from our students (mostly medical) who we anticipate will submit clear and objective polite comments concerning merits of our teaching efforts. We expect the same from referees of our manuscripts. Thus we all wait.
Waiting has permeated other areas, perhaps less tangible to us as biomedical researchers. There is the well-known theatre piece of Samuel Beckett: ‘Waiting for Godot’ which emphasizes
For reprints and all correspondence: Edwin L. Cooper, PhD, ScD, Distinguished Professor, Laboratory of Comparative Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1763, USA. Tel: +1-310-825-9567; Fax: +1-310-825-2224; E-mail: cooper@mednet.ucla.edu
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